Kbuskill's 2008 Burb LTZ "MOD" Thread

[kbuskill]

My new 3 chamber Magnaflow arrived today...

Came with tool box art...

A pic down the throat...

I'm also thinking about going old school and sticking an old stainless tip on her straight out the back instead of out the side corner... just to be different...

It's a 4" stainless tip that I had on my old 2 door box body S-10 Blazer.

 

[Fosscore]

Burble...burble... hope this turns out better for you. Look forward to seeing the tip out the back.

Custom cutout through the bumper might look trick? Lol

 

[kbuskill]

Burble...burble... hope this turns out better for you. Look forward to seeing the tip out the back.

Custom cutout through the bumper might look trick? Lol

If it were the early '90's and it was a 5.0 Mustang that would be dope... lol

I too hope it ends up sounding the way I want... I hate spending money on a maybe.

 

[07Burb]

Gonna be quiet as a church mouse being that big

 

[kbuskill]

Gonna be quiet as a church mouse being that big

I'm not looking for church mouse quiet but I hope it does what I want... with the truck having headers and no cats she is way louder than I expected. Hopefully this will be a happy medium... guess we will know tomorrow... lol

 

[Fosscore]

If it were the early '90's and it was a 5.0 Mustang that would be dope... lol

I too hope it ends up sounding the way I want... I hate spending money on a maybe.

Still gotcha thinking about it even if not put into play. Lol

I think it will sound like the entire church choir on full tilt. Lol

Can’t wait ...

 

[kbuskill]

Got the new 3 chamber Magnaflow XL put on the Burb today... also removed the factory resonator out by the tail pipe and replaced the factory tip with a 4" stainless tip straight out the back...

That is 3 feet of muffler there ladies and jelly spohns.

A pic from behind.

And one from the side.... I'm still not 100% about the tip location... some angles it looks good, some it looks funny... I think I'm just not used to seeing it there.

Here is a better pic of the Y-pipe I had built as well...

This is where the original Y-pipe joined together right before the transmission crossmember by the transmission pan.

And here is where the new longer Y-pipes come together in front of the next crossmember which is about 1.5'- 2' further back.

 

[PG01]

I don’t work at work.... HEAR IT ME-OWWWW

 

[89Suburban]

I don’t work at work.... HEAR IT ME-OWWWW

Outta be a law, posting new exhaust pics without video, shame shame...

 

[iamdub]

I think the exit location is fine. Reminds me of a TBSS. I think it sticks out too far, though.

 

[kbuskill]

I think the exit location is fine. Reminds me of a TBSS. I think it sticks out too far, though.

Yeah I think the same thing from certain angles... then from others it looks normal... I don't know... maybe it's because of the curvature/angle of the bumper... who knows.

As a side note when I went to take the video of the exhaust when I got home I somehow corrupted my SD card in my phone. I spent the rest of the evening trying to recover it, as it has irreplaceable pictures on it... no luck yet.. I'm tired and going to bed... maybe I will have better luck tomorrow.

I will try to get a video of it tomorrow and get it posted up here as well.

 

[swathdiver]

Yeah I think the same thing from certain angles... then from others it looks normal... I don't know... maybe it's because of the curvature/angle of the bumper... who knows.

As a side note when I went to take the video of the exhaust when I got home I somehow corrupted my SD card in my phone. I spent the rest of the evening trying to recover it, as it has irreplaceable pictures on it... no luck yet.. I'm tired and going to bed... maybe I will have better luck tomorrow.

I will try to get a video of it tomorrow and get it posted up here as well.

Carbonite Ken! I back everything up to my desktop PC which runs in a Raid Array, two hard drives are mirror images of one another. Then those are backed up at Carbonite.

I've got a failed Raid 0 (two drives) with priceless photos sitting in a box waiting for the recovery prices to come down; and when I think of it!

Exhaust looks great! Not unlike a 6.2 Tahoe or 2500 6.0.

 

[kbuskill]

Alright ladies and jelly spohns, here it is...

I noticed today while cruising about 60mph there is a very annoying drone... it makes the road noise from the tires sound like a... wha- wha- wha.... so I think I'm gonna have to add the resonator back in.

I think I will see if they can stick the resonator up in front of the muffler instead of back at the tail pipe... we shall see... I am getting pretty tired of fooling with it at this point.

I think it sounds pretty good from outside the truck but I can't take the drone.

 

[08HoeCD]

Sounds like NASCAR

 

[Fosscore]

That is freakin' awesome, but understand the drone!! Looking at my twin, but no way the wife is going to turn 4 at Daytona. Leaves blowing on the final rev = favorite part!! Sssschwing!!

 

[mikeyss]

Thinking out loud, the resonator should be after the muffler, closer to where the stock one was. If you put it in front of the muffler, I don't think it'll do much but add a restriction. If it's further back, it cancels out what the muffler doesn't, and won't restrict anything. I may be wrong, but it's a thought.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Thinking out loud, the resonator should be after the muffler, closer to where the stock one was. If you put it in front of the muffler, I don't think it'll do much but add a restriction. If it's further back, it cancels out what the muffler doesn't, and won't restrict anything. I may be wrong, but it's a thought.

Eh, makes sense tho.

 

[swathdiver]

Alright ladies and jelly spohns, here it is...

I noticed today while cruising about 60mph there is a very annoying drone... it makes the road noise from the tires sound like a... wha- wha- wha.... so I think I'm gonna have to add the resonator back in.

I think I will see if they can stick the resonator up in front of the muffler instead of back at the tail pipe... we shall see... I am getting pretty tired of fooling with it at this point.

I think it sounds pretty good from outside the truck but I can't take the drone.

She sounds great! But like you, the kids and the Air Force can have the drone(s)!

When all is said and done, you can market a KBuskill Exhaust system!

 

[kbuskill]

Thinking out loud, the resonator should be after the muffler, closer to where the stock one was. If you put it in front of the muffler, I don't think it'll do much but add a restriction. If it's further back, it cancels out what the muffler doesn't, and won't restrict anything. I may be wrong, but it's a thought.

This very well may be true...

The only reason I was thinking about putting it before the muffler is because with it out back in its original location it makes it tough having a different tip in a different location.

I guess the guys at the muffler shop will just have to bend the pipes a little differently to make it all work OR I will have to figure out something different for a tip.

They did have a dual tip similar to the ones on the SLP resonator delete kit, which I do like pretty well BUT I wanted something different from what we normally see on these trucks.

Oh well, I will probably have an update Monday to tell you guys what I end up doing with it all.


P.S. As a side note I do have the chrome tip with the BOWTIE on it if anyone is looking for one let me know.

 

[iamdub]

I agree with Mike. The stock resonator is designed to cancel out a narrow band of frequency(ies) left over after the muffler. I don't see it being very effective being placed before the muffler, unless the drone you have an issue with is the same frequencies that resonator is designed to cancel out.

There's a relatively simple mathematical formula for determining a pipe length to focus on just the drone. So, if you like the sound and volume, but not the drone, and if the drone seems to be at a fairly specific point, why not try it out? I think with all the other cool, one-off mods you have, making a custom resonator for your exhaust would compliment them. It should be cheap, too, especially with the prices your exhaust shop has as it is. Basically, the resonator would be a simple J-shaped pipe coming off of your exhaust pipe, made to be a certain length and capped off at the end.